Cartridge-carrier for firearms.



PATENTED AUG. 7, 1906.

A. J. SAVAGE. CARTRIDGE CARRIER FOR FIREARMS.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1906.

UNITED STATES ARTHUR J. SAVAGE, OF OHIGOPEE F LLS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO J. STEVENS ARMS & TOOL (10., OF CHIUOPEE FALLS, MASSACHU- SETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

Application filed March 26, 1906. Serial No. 307,951-

To all whonz it natty concern.-

Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. SAVAGE, of Chicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge-Carriers for Firearms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification.

The object of my present invention is to provide an adjustable cartridge-carrier for firearms which is adapted when adjusted to its various sizes to receive cartridges from the magazine and transfer them to the barrel of the firearm.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a cartridge-carrier, including the features of my improvements, in connection with a section of the rear end of the barrel and magazine of a firearm and certain portions of the firearmframe. Fig. 2 shows the carrier detached from the other parts and in what is known as its elevated position as compared with the position shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 shows a side elevation, and Fig. 4 an end view, of the adjustable stop constituting an essential feature of the invention. Fig. 5 shows a rear end view of the carrier. Fig. 6 shows a section taken on the dotted line A A of Fig. 2.

Referring to the reference-figures in a more particular description, 1 indicates the carrier, which is pivoted in the frame of the firearm at 2 at its rear end in a well-known manner and at its forward end adapted to swing from a position at the rear end of the magazine 3 to a position at the rear end of the barrel 4. The carrier carries at its forward end a cartridgereceiving socket or pocket 5, into which the cartridges move from the magazine when the carrier is in its lower position. This socket or pocket in the carrier is provided at its rear end with an adjustable stop 6, adapted to vary the depth or length of the pocket from front to rear, depending on the point at which the stop is adjusted. This stop at its lower portion is provided with a slotted base-piece 6 and is mounted on a fixed pin 7 in the carrier,

the pin entering the slot in the base piece 6. The stop and base portion together have a rocking motion on the pin 7, as well as a slid= ing motion, by means of which two motions the upper end of the stop is engaged and disengaged from the catch-shoulders 8, three such catch-shoulders being shown in the drawings.

In order to hold the stop in any desired position of adjustment, there is provided a spring 9, secured to the under side of the carrier at one end and having its free end pressing downwardly upon the connecting portion 6? between thetwo parts of the base of the stop. The outer face of this connecting por-' tion is enlarged into a protuberance 6, which is milled or roughened to enable the operator to readily operate the same.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the stop is shown adjusted to the position to receive the longest length of cartridge. In 22-caliber cartridges, to which the construction is particularly adapted, there are three favorite sizes, known, respectively, as short, long, and long rifle, and the stop shown in the drawings is particularly arranged for adjustment to these three sizes.

It will be noted that when short cartridges are employed in the magazine the stop will necessarily be adjusted to its farthest position toward the front; otherwise so much of the second cartridge would protrude from the rear end of the magazine into the carrier as to block its operation. It is therefore necessary that the stop be adjusted to correspond with the size of the cartridges being used in the magazine: This carrier is particularly adapted for use in firearms which may be taken down or separated so as to afford ready access to the working parts,- wherebythe operator can readily reach the carrier to produce the adjustment befoie referred to.

When the carrier is moved into its upper position to deliver the cartridge into the barrel, the lower curved front end portion 1 is adapted to stand at the rear end of the magazine and prevent the cartridges being forced out until such time as the carrier is dropped into its lower position.

It is evident that numerous modifications and changes in and from the construction described may be made Without departlng from I the spirit of my invention and to accomplish substantially the same result:

What Iclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination in a cartr1dge-carrier having a cartridge-receiving pocket of a movable stop, a series of catch-notches in Which the stop may be definitely located, and means for permitting the adjustment of the stop into any of said several catch-notches and retaining it in such adjusted position, substantially as set forth.

In Witness whereof I have affixed my signature, in presence of tWo Witnesses, this 24th I 5 day of March, 1906.

ARTHUR J. SAVAGE. Witnesses:

S. I. DEVINE, CARL G. CUNNINGHAM. 

